Insight Type: The 5G Factor

5G Factor: Signs of 5G Turnaround?
April 10, 2024

5G Factor: Signs of 5G Turnaround?

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Olivier Blanchard review potential indicators of improving 5G prospects in 2024 including Samsung’s surging Q1 2024 financial results amid AI’s rising tide, growing worldwide...
5G Factor: AI RAN and Telco AI Rising
April 3, 2024

5G Factor: AI RAN and Telco AI Rising

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Tom Hollingsworth review the major AI RAN and Telco AI developments including the ecosystem impact of the AI-RAN Alliance launch, HEAVY.AI’s progress in the...
5G Factor: Telco GenAI’s Early Market Impact
March 29, 2024

5G Factor: Telco GenAI’s Early Market Impact

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Olivier Blanchard review the nascent market impact of Telco GenAI including BT Group using Amazon Code Whisperer to provide GenAI coding assistance to its...
5G Factor: Key MWC24 Takeaways – The Cloud and Telcos
March 25, 2024

5G Factor: Key MWC24 Takeaways – The Cloud and Telcos

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Tom Hollingsworth review the top cloud and telco takeaways from MWC 2024 consisting of Red Hat and Tech Mahindra’s hybrid cloud alliance advances, Red...
5G Factor: Key MWC24 Takeaways – Open RAN
March 19, 2024

5G Factor: Key MWC24 Takeaways – Open RAN

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall reviews the top Open RAN takeaways from MWC 2024 consisting of Ericsson Cloud RAN portfolio advances, Nokia’s anyRAN market readiness including anyRAN for enterprise partnerships...
5G Factor: Key MWC24 Takeaways – Semis and Devices
March 13, 2024

5G Factor: Key MWC24 Takeaways – Semis and Devices

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Olivier Blanchard review their key takeaways from Mobile World Congress 2024 across the semiconductor and device realms including Micron’s memory and storage advances with...
5G Factor: MWC24 Preview – P5G and API Alliances Flourishing
February 22, 2024

5G Factor: MWC24 Preview – P5G and API Alliances Flourishing

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall examines key new 5G alliances that he sees as having the most impact pre-MWC24 including Dell and Nokia teaming up to advance private 5G network...
5G Factor: MWC24 Preview – AI, Devices, and UX Shine
February 15, 2024

5G Factor: MWC24 Preview – AI, Devices, and UX Shine

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Olivier Blanchard scrutinize key innovations leading into 2024 and MWC 24 including how on-device AI will begin to reset expectations for everyday tech products’...
5G Factor: MWC24 Preview – AI and GenAI Percolating
February 6, 2024

5G Factor: MWC24 Preview – AI and GenAI Percolating

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores key 5G AI and GenAI move to watch in 2024 including GSMA IBM collaboration on assisting telco AI adoption using IBM’s watsonx platform and...
5G Factor: MWC24 Preview – Innovations on the Rise
January 31, 2024

5G Factor: MWC24 Preview – Innovations on the Rise

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores key 5G ecosystem innovations to watch in 2024 including DTaaS readiness for global 5G deployments, the Multi-G initiative’s boost from major players, and Wind...
5G Factor: 5G Sustainability and GenAI Meet
January 24, 2024

5G Factor: 5G Sustainability and GenAI Meet

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Todd R Weiss review review of the top market shapers in the 5G sustainability realm, why Ciena, Cisco, Ericsson, Juniper, and Nokia excel at...
5G Factor: CES 2024 Takeaways – Automobiles Shine
January 18, 2024

5G Factor: CES 2024 Takeaways – Automobiles Shine

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Olivier Blanchard review key CES 2024 announcements such as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Digital Chassis innovations and Stellantis, Blackberry, and AWS collaboration focused on advancing virtual...

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